which is the one of an opera companys worst nightmares?”
It’s one of an opera company’s worst nightmares: The star tenor loses his voice before opening night, and there’s no understudy to take his place on stage. The scenario gets even grimmer when the opera is Wagner’s “Siegfried,” the third installment of his “Ring” cycle and a work in which the title character has to sing for virtually the entire 4 1/2-hour performance. So when Swedish tenor Paer Lindskog came down with bronchitis during rehearsal for the Washington National Opera’s new production, the company flew in American Scott MacAllister — and the two men combined forces Saturday night. While MacAllister, with no time to learn the complicated staging, sang from the side of the stage, Lindskog lip-synched through all three acts as the young superhero who forges a sword, slays a dragon, captures a magical golden ring and plunges through fire to win the heart of Bruennhilde. (Such a compromise is not unprecedented. At the Seattle Opera in 2001, Canadian Alan Woodrow injured his leg in
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